Rahul Gandhi also said: “How dare China kill our soldiers? How dare they take our land?”
A day after his measured response to the violent confrontation between Indian and Chinese troops at Galwan Valley, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi turned up the heat against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, questioning his silence on the issue. “Why is the PM silent? Why is he hiding? Enough is enough. We need to know what has happened,” he tweeted on Wednesday.
He was equally combative in taking on China for its violent border transgressions. “How dare China kill our soldiers? How dare they take our land?” he added.
On Tuesday, the Wayanad MP condoled the deaths of the 20 Indian Army personnel who died in violent clashes with the Chinese troops. “Words cannot describe the pain I feel for the officers and men who sacrificed their lives for our country. My condolences to all their loved ones. We stand with you in this difficult time,” he tweeted.
His mother and Congress president Sonia Gandhi also said she was “deeply anguish and pained” after de-escalation efforts at the Indo-China border took an unprecedented turn.
“My tributes to their undaunting courage and condolences to the bereaved…
